28-year-old girl with old hands became a network star
Unfortunately, this is a rare disease, and doctors can do nothing to help her. Lauren Bell has been teased since her youth for having «grandmother’s hands» despite her young age. But now she is only 28 years old.
There’s a reason Lauren’s hands look older. Lauren’s skin is chapped from eczema and years of use of steroid creams to relieve her symptoms.
Bell often gets comments like «Why do your hands look so old?». At first she was upset. But over time, she stopped feeling uncomfortable due to tactless questions from strangers.
Previously, the girl used steroid creams as a treatment. And they cause a range of problems: skin aging, sun sensitivity, and even worsening of the external symptoms of eczema.
As a result, Lauren decided to stop using topical steroid creams, which, according to her, she became addicted to. Now she prefers natural products that do not have such a damaging effect on the skin. Although her hands will no longer become “young”.
For a long time, Lauren covered her brushes with long-sleeved sweaters to hide them from prying eyes. Even in the summer, she did not wear tank tops and T-shirts.
But now she has embraced her skin and no longer feels like a «freak» by being open about it on social media. The girl is trying to broadcast to the world that you need to love yourself and accept yourself as we are.
“I now have a lot of comments from people, especially from young women, who write: “I never understood why my hands look old. Now I know I’m not alone,» says Bell.
Surprisingly, many people experience the same problem and don’t even know they have eczema.
